CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION, RACISM, THE KKK, & THE CONFEDERATE "LOST CAUSE"
Updated May 3, 2008
TIMELINES - MAPS - OUTLINES - GRAPHS
TIMELINE: Reconstruction: 1865-1896
TIMELINE: Reconstruction to 1898
TIMELINE: Reconstruction
TIMELINE: Frederick Douglass
MAP: Reconstruction Military Districts
OUTLINE: Reconstruction (1865-1877)
GRAPH: Lynchings since 1900
The South: Where is it? What is it? and Index of Graphs and Maps
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Reconstruction Era Documents
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Wade-Davis Manifesto, 1864
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Lincoln Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Freedmen's Bureau Act, March 3, 1865
ANDREW JOHNSON: Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon for the Confederate States
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Report of the Joint Comittee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Freedmen and Southern Society Project
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner, May or June, 1865
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS: 1867
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Force Acts of 1870 & 1871, excerpts
LAWS DESIGNED TO DISARM SLAVES, FREEDMEN, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS
THE "CIVIL WAR" AMENDMENTS to the CONSTITUTION
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Judge Albion Tourgee on the KKK
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Texas v. White (1869)
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: HENRY B. BROWN: Plessy v. Ferguson
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: 1896 PLESSY v. FERGUSON: Justice Harlan's Dissent
African American Perspective - Pamphlets Home Page
More Civil War & Reconstruction primary documents are available on my CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS page.
AFTER THE WAR - RECONSTRUCTION & THE BIRTH OF "THE NEW SOUTH"
The South: Where is it? What is it? and Index of Graphs and Maps
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS: 1867
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Force Acts of 1870 & 1871, excerpts
LAWS DESIGNED TO DISARM SLAVES, FREEDMEN, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS
THE
"CIVIL WAR" AMENDMENTS to the CONSTITUTION
13th Amendment
14th
Amendment
15th
Amendment
After the Civil War: Introduction
After the Civil War: State of Blacks
Relations of Race
Racism and Democracy - Fighting Jim Crow
The Crisis of Leadership - The Debate over Means and Ends
Post Civil War Period
America's Civil War: Aftermath
USCWC -- Reconstruction
Reconstructing the Nation
Reconstruction Era - Healing a Divided Land
Opposing views on Reconstruction
Radical Republicans and Reconstruction
The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction & the Gilded Age
Reconstruction in Texas
Texas and Reconstruction
Encyclopedia.com - Force bill
Black Codes
Louisiana Black Codes, 1865
Mississippi Black Code, 1865
Reconstruction Lecture Summary
The Black Codes of 1865
Aftermath & Reconstruction
Amnesty Proclamations
MAP: Reconstruction Military Districts
Benjamin Franklin Butler, "The Beast of New Orleans"
Military Rule "Radical Reconstruction" 1867 - 1877
Race Riots "Battle Of Liberty Place" September 14, 1874
Sherman's Sentinels
Scalawags
Brief History of Carpetbags and Carpetbaggers
Carpetbaggers
Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags - interesting book.
The "Truth" About Northern Carpetbaggers - a "Lost Cause" diatribe and falsehood.
Prologue: Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview
The Prostrate State "Racial Backlash" 1874
Johnson's Reconstruction: "Carrying Out Lincoln's Plan", 1865-1869
Radical Republicans: "Zealous Crusaders"
Reconciliation
The American Civil War and Reconstruction
Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolition to Reconstruction
Reconstruction Essay on the writings of Moore, Stampp, & Randall
Reconstruction ends - The Compromise of 1877
The "New South"
Contemporary Historians (of the late 1800s - early 1900s) interpret Reconstruction
The History of Jim Crow - segregation from the 1870s-1950s
CONFEDERATES HEAD SOUTH -- WAY SOUTH!
The Civil War in South Carolina - The Brazil Migration
Post civil war reconstruction and confederate immigration to Brazil
Rebels Way, Way Down South: Confederates in Brazil
COURT CASES
LAWS DESIGNED TO DISARM SLAVES, FREEDMEN, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Texas v. White (1869)
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: HENRY B. BROWN: Plessy v. Ferguson
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: 1896 PLESSY v. FERGUSON: Justice Harlan's Dissent
Plessy vs. Ferguson - Separate but equal declared constitutional
After the Civil War: Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy vs. Ferguson
AFRICAN AMERICANS AFTER THE WAR
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
LAWS DESIGNED TO DISARM SLAVES, FREEDMEN, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Booker T. Washington: The Atlanta Compromise, Excerpt
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: W.E.B. Du Bois on Booker T. Washington
TIMELINE: Frederick Douglass
The Freedmens Bureau Online
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Freedmen and Southern Society Project: Sample Documents
The First Years of Freedom, 1865-1945
Juneteenth - June 19, 1865: the date word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas(two years late!)
After the Civil War: State of Blacks
After the Civil War: Plessy v. Ferguson
The Political Graveyard: Politicians Born in Slavery
Civil Rights. Table of Contents of the Evolution of Blacks in America
Civil Rights: Blacks launch a united effort
The Evolution of Black Leadership at the turn of the Century
Frederick Douglass (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Booker T. Washington
About Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Washington, Booker T. 1901. Up from Slavery
W.E.B. DuBois Biography
Civil Rights: Reconstruction ends and Blacks flee the South
Minority Families Moved from the South to the North for Economic Growth
North By South/Great Migrations Page
The Great Migration: Blacks in White America
"The New Negro" Immigration and Migration
Chronicle of African-American Farming and Land Loss
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
The History of Jim Crow - segregation from the 1870s-1950s
Suffrage in the South, Part I: The Poll Tax and Part II: The One Party System
“The New Negro”: “When He’s Hit, He Hits Back!”
Race During the Great Depression
Hard Times Again - Racism in the 1930s
American Experience | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
For info on the evolution of farm tenancy and sharecropping, please check out the TURBULENT THIRTIES (look for the section on agriculture) on my 20TH CENTURY AMERICA page.
More African American history on my AFRICAN AMERICANS page.
RACISM,
VIOLENCE, & THE KKK
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Judge Albion Tourgee on the KKK
FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Ku Klux Klan Investigation (1964)
Civil Rights: the Klan is Born
Klu Klux Klan: A Hundred Years of Terror
Ku Klux Klan Collection
Brief History of Ku Klux Klan & the Confederacy according to "Southern 'Lost Cause' Group"
The KKK
The Klan
Birth Of The KKK "Ghostly Terrorists" May 1866
The 1st Ku Klux Klan
The First Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, an Encarta Encyclopedia Article
Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia, 1871
The KKK in Texas
The Second Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan in the City 1915-1930
The Klan enjoys its greatest hour
The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana
Ku Klux Klan in Dallas, Texas During the 1920s
Klu Klux Klan in 1920s El Paso, TX
Hugo Black and the KKK
The Klan after World War II
Ku Klux Klan
More on the History of the Ku Klux Klan
Southern Poverty Law Center on the KKK
Poisoning the Web - Ku Klux Klan
GRAPH: Lynchings since 1900
Lynching in America
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Southern Women and Anti-Lynching Campaigns, Introduction - document list
Burned at the Stake: A Black Man Pays for a Town’s Outrage - in Paris, Texas, 1893.
David Duke's Official Web Site
David Duke: In His Own Words - Introduction
Institutional Racism
Race, Racism and the Law
Center for the Study of White American Culture
RACISM & STEREOTYPES IN "ENTERTAINMENT"
The Black Minstrel Show
Black-Face Minstrelsy
The Minstrel Show
Uncle Remus
The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
PAL: Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
Selected Text Page-Uncle Remus
Thomas Dixon, 1864-1946. The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
About Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864-1946)
The Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation: AKA "The Clansman" (1915)
D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Reexamining The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation & NAACP
Sincere Fictions of the White Self in the American Cinema: The Divided White Self in Civil War Films
THE BIRTH (& unrealistic beliefs) OF THE CONFEDERATE "LOST CAUSE"
What are the beliefs of the Confederate Lost Cause?
1. The war was fought for Constitutional (state's) rights
2. Confederates were NOT rebels - they were fighting for the "American Ideal"
3. All whites gleefully participated & rallied to the cause
4. Slavery was not the cause
5. Slaves were loyal UNTIL Yankees lured them away
6. The South succumbed only because of larger numbers of troops and industrial capacity of the North.
7. Just because the South lost does not mean they weren't right ... someday people will realize it.
Sons of Confederate Veterans National Website
The United Daughters of the Confederacy
United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)
Children of the Confederacy
Lesser Known Historical Excerpts Relevant to the "American Civil War"
THE BEST IN CIVIL WAR ART
Contemporary Confederate Poetry
Quitman Guardian: Co K 53rd GA Vol Inf - Reenactors of the War of Northern Aggression
South Carolina Heritage Coalition
Black Confederates: justify Southern benevolence toward blacks
Texas Division Children of the Confederacy
Nicola Marschall Chapter 757, Children of the Confederacy
Mid-Cities Bluebonnet Chapter 2429, UDC
Belle of the Ball - A "Lost Cause" Civil War Collection
Fried Lies
Alternate History - 20th Century Confederacy
Overcoming the "Sour Grapes" Version of Southern History
Natchez Pilgrimage Tours
Southern Heritage
DixieNet - The League of the South Web Site
The Dixie Mart: Your One Stop Shop for Southern Goods!
CSAnet: Promoting Southern heritage and unreconstructed Southern history
CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS
We March Down Monument Row
Colleton County Confederate Monument Controversy
Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA
Stone Mountain Project
THE CONFEDERATE FLAG ISSUE TODAY
The flag and the fury
Mississippi State Flag - About the Mississippi State Flag
Confederate Flag Battle: A Time To Teach
Confederate Flag Issues
Confederate Flag Fight Dodges Bigger Battles
Images of Confederate flags can be found on my Civil War Causes, Maps, Flags page.
VARIOUS TOPICS
Salmon Portland Chase Birthplace and Boyhood Home
Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South
Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Upper South
The Political Graveyard: Politicians Born in Slavery
Rebels Way, Way Down South: Confederates in Brazil
The Dixiecrats(Southern Democrats)
The Civil War Tourist
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